About Melissa
Melissa Murray is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety and related stress. She brings 12 years of experience and works with adults to address problems like depression, grief, relationship strain, OCD, and ADHD. Her approach is calm and straightforward.
She meets people where they are and helps them move forward one step at a time. Melissa designs sessions to be respectful and nonjudgmental.
Background and approach
She listens first and then helps clients name the patterns that keep them stuck. From there she and the client set simple, realistic goals and try techniques that fit the person’s life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each individual’s comfort.
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered care, and cognitive-behavioral tools. That mix lets her address emotional patterns, daily habits, and difficult memories in ways that make sense for clients. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and narrative therapy when those methods help clarify problems and options.
Melissa has experience supporting people through big life shifts such as career changes, caregiving strain, and loss. She also helps with concerns like self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. Practical coping skills, clearer decision-making, and steadier mood regulation are typical goals in her work.
Sessions are offered from Georgia and are conducted in English. Melissa aims to help each person develop tools they can use after a session ends. She encourages small, sustainable steps rather than quick fixes.
Approach-driven care you can access online
Melissa often uses client-centered work that centers the person's own goals and values. This approach prioritizes listening and then building plans that make sense for the individual, which helps with motivation and clearer decision-making.She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change small daily habits. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and obsessive thinking because it pairs practical exercises with straightforward tracking of progress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying a few tools early on and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people use face-to-face discussion and practice skills together. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat offer shorter, flexible touchpoints between longer sessions. These options help make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and travel without sacrificing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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